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Today's Topics:
1. long standing problem with var/Makefile (still in Netdot
v1.0.7) (William Bulley)
2. Re: long standing problem with var/Makefile (still in Netdot
v1.0.7) (William Bulley)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 15:47:16 -0500
From: William Bulley <[email protected]>
Subject: [Netdot-devel] long standing problem with var/Makefile (still
in Netdot v1.0.7)
To: [email protected]
Cc: Carlos Vicente <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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On a whim, seeing that now Netdot v1.0.7 is in the FreeBSD ports tree,
I decided to "give it a go" on a freshly updated FreeBSD 9.3-STABLE
system. I used this command after "# svn update /usr/ports":
# portmaster -K -B -D net-mgmt/netdot
(interestingly this reported 135 (!) dependent ports -- must be a record!)
After running for a minute or two, it bombed out in error:
It could not find "rrdtool" on root's path (since the rrdtool port
had not yet been built), but mostly because the var/Makefile has:
all:
if ! test -r $(STAGEDIR)/$(DIR)/$(POLLSTATSRRD); then \
rrdtool create $(POLLSTATSRRD) -s 3600 \
DS:ips:GAUGE:7200:0:4294967296 \
...
...
Which has long bothered me. The "bare" reference to "rrdtool" in
the line following the "if" command assumes the invoking user of
the makefile (nominally "root") will have "rrdtool" on his path.
This may not be the case.
Note, in the top level Netdot Makefile we have something like this:
# Netdot Makefile
#
PERL ?= /usr/bin/perl
PREFIX ?= /usr/local/www/netdot
I would like to see this solved somehow using something like this:
# Netdot Makefile
#
LOCALBASE ?= /usr/local
BIN ?= $(LOCALBASE)/bin
PERL ?= /usr/bin/perl
PREFIX ?= $(LOCALBASE)/www/netdot
and then in the subordinate var/Makefile there could be something
like this:
all:
if ! test -r $(STAGEDIR)/$(DIR)/$(POLLSTATSRRD); then \
$(BIN)/rrdtool create $(POLLSTATSRRD) -s 3600 \
DS:ips:GAUGE:7200:0:4294967296 \
...
...
Anyway, after I replaced the bare "rrdtool" in the var/Makefile
under the "work" directory with "/usr/local/bin/rrdtool" (after
first building databases/rrdtool !!) the build of net-mgmt/netdot
proceeded apace and completed successfully. Thanks in advance.
Regards,
web...
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 17:58:11 -0500
From: William Bulley <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Netdot-devel] long standing problem with var/Makefile
(still in Netdot v1.0.7)
To: Nick Hilliard <[email protected]>
Cc: Carlos Vicente <[email protected]>,
[email protected]
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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According to Nick Hilliard <[email protected]> on Sun, 01/25/15 at 17:38:
>
> mmm, this is really a freebsd port problem. Could you stick this into
> freebsd bugzilla and I'll take a look at it from there?
>
> yes, it does pull in a lot of dependencies. My poudriere build has ~240
> dependencies on a bare-bones system. pkgng creates serious win here.
Technically you are correct, but if I can get Carlos (!) to "fix" the
var/Makefile (somehow, and in the way he feels correct), then it will
go away when next v1.0.8 appears in the ports tree.
I don't know about bugzilla. Maybe you could point me to the details.
The number of 135 dependencies was quite amazing to me! I've just
finished a marathon, two day, effort building 960+ ports from a bare
system. I try not to do that too often, obviously! ;-)
I've just embraced portmaster and I am in love with it! I don't know
anyting about pkgng. I am happy with the tools I have. Being a real
dinosaur (started with FreeBSD 2.15 in 1996 or 1997) I am fairly set
in my ways and slow to adopt the cutting edge stuff. Thanks!
Regards,
web...
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